As in painting, there are many types of brushes and brush strokes as well techniques to apply the paint, etc. All these decisions are made by the painter; and just like the painter, the photographer can contol the vast array of tools and software that can be found in the digital darkroom. As in painting the artist can choose what to include and/or exclude from his preliminary sketch, so can the photographer in the digital darkroom. It was during early conversations in our collaboration, which we realized that as adversarial as painting and photography once were, there were many similarities that we chose to focus on. The graphic shapes of this composition led my process down a different path.
